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Jim Dries is the founder and CEO of PILYTIX.ai, a provider of AI technologies for revenue professionals primarily in sports, entertainment, and university fundraising. PILYTIX.ai empowers its users to effectively leverage the mountains of customer data their organizations generate to drive efficiencies that improve revenues without increasing costs. The vision at PILYTIX, is simple, as Jim shares, “We want to help organizations exceed their revenue targets by working smarter.”

Prior to founding PILYTIX.ai, Jim’s career spanned leadership roles in finance, product development, sales, and marketing. Jim is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Kunal Agarwal is the founder of dope.security, the fly-direct Secure Web Gateway (SWG). Prior to dope, he led product & engineering teams at major legacy SWG players, first Symantec then Forcepoint. In a fifteen-year career, Kunal has dabbled in everything from credit card security to ethical hacking. He is also a producer and spends much of his free time experimenting with music, photo, video, and design work. Kunal received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Adam Baker is the founder of 3 SaaS companies with 2 exits and $20M ARR, bootstrapped. He has also held sales leadership roles at Salesforce and Intuit.

Adam is the CEO of dealpad.io, software giving sales teams a process to align with their buying teams and win more of the deals they work on.

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Eric Olden is a maverick that has pioneered 3 major paradigm shifts in Identity and Access management. He founded, scaled, and successfully exited both Securant/ClearTrust (Web Access Management) and Symplified, (the first IDaaS company). He recently served as SVP and GM at Oracle, where he ran the identity and security business worldwide.

As a technologist, he was a co-author of the SAML standard, creating the first pre-integrated SSO platform, and is the visionary behind the Identity Fabric. With an obsession for simplifying the way we work as an industry, Eric wrote a new identity standard called Identity Query Language (IDQL) which provides a common language for policy management in a multi-cloud world.

Eric’s latest company Strata is the first distributed identity platform that solves the problem of fragmentation through a no-code software solution.

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Ted Gutierrez is the CEO and Co-Founder of SecurityGate, the leading OT cyber assessment & improvement SaaS platform provider. He guides the strategy of the company to innovate for top cyber security challenges facing critical infrastructure companies today. He is a United States Military Academy graduate at West Point and served in the US Army for five years. Before founding SecurityGate, Ted conducted hundreds of site maturity assessments globally as a compliance and risk auditor. Outside work, Ted is a racecar enthusiast and enjoys working on his classic car collection.

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Evan Varsamis is a New York-based Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO at Gadget Flow, and Mintify  Co-founder of HustleClick, and CreatorClub, contributor at Forbes, Inc, HuffPost, and American Express Essentials. He is also an advisor at Sprint Fund, Qrator, and Crowdreach. 

Evan is passionate about emerging technologies like NFTs, Crypto, DAOs, Gaming, the Metaverse, and Crowdfunding

His work has been featured on Mashable, The Next Web, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Forbes, and the Web Summit.

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Amy Spurling is the Founder and CEO of Compt, HR software that enables companies to offer truly personalized employee perks while being fully tax-compliant and inclusive for global teams. Amy's experience as a former three-time CFO and two-time COO managing Finance and HR drives her belief that companies and employees can achieve much more together when employees are fully supported. A seasoned executive with nearly 20 years of experience in leadership roles at venture-backed companies, Amy has also closed over ten rounds of financing totaling more than $200M and managed two acquisitions to close. Amy received her Master of Business Administration from the Simmons School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester.

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​​Aaron Ginn is the co-founder of Hydra Host, The Foundation for American Innovation, and Fabius Labs. Hydra Host specializes in providing data centers with unparalleled provision, management, and security solutions, allowing them to focus on their core competency- hardware and infrastructure. The Foundation for American Innovation is a company of innovators and policy entrepreneurs working to advance a more perfect union between technology and the American republic. Fabius Labs is a full-service product agency that works with founders and entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life using technology.  

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Mark Fershteyn is the CEO of Recapped.io, a new category of product that helps B2B sellers collaborate with their buyers. Before founding Recapped, Mark spent a decade selling technology and building sales teams from scratch.

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TradeZing is a platform that aggregates real-time information from financial professionals, data sources, social media, and the creator community to help Americans learn about the current economic landscape.

Jordan Edelson is a Forbes 30 under 30 seasoned entrepreneur and CEO/Co-Founder of TradeZing and the groundbreaking mobile digital agency, Appetizer Mobile. Mr. Edelson is also the Director of Chic Sketch, an award-winning fashion mobile application. He has a long history as an entrepreneur from the early age of 17 has included starting multiple companies such as Game Broadcasting Live, a digital streaming video game broadcasting channel that premiered on Time Square's Jumbotron screens, and eSportsTV, a portal for streaming live electronic sports and professional video gaming broadcasts.

He’s made features in Popular Science Magazine, Business Review, Biz Journal, MSNBC.com, WABC-TV, World News Now(ABC), Discovery Channel, WRGB-TV (CBS), and CNBC, along with other radio, print, web, and television spots. Mr. Edelson graduated from The University of Albany with a B.A. in communications and a minor in business and sociology.

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